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Unable to power off Xserve RAID
Xserve RAID drive was recently set to RAID 50 and restriped to single partition.
Approx .3 TB Uncompressed HD media captured to drive.
Unable to power off (quit FCP, drive was unmounted, held down power button for 5 seconds but lights on front still on).
– Disk utility does not show RAID, unable to remount.
– RAID admin says that the RAID is off.What should I do to safely power down the RAID and reboot?
Thanks in advance.
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4 Replies
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Hold the button down longer — sometimes it takes a bit to let go, but it should.
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in that case you have only option of switch off the main and tunn on after a while. simultanious ly restart the comp also.
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I have the exact same problem. After about one week of running the XServe RAID won’t shut off manually, no matter how long I hold down the power button. After a power restart by yanking the power cords (very bad) all is well again with the RAID. One week later I notice one bank of activity lights on the RAID no longer move. At that point RAID Admin tools can’t connect to the box and the power won’t restart again. I’ve replaced both RAID controllers to no avail. Warranty has expired now with no solution. Yikes. Other than these symptoms the box runs fine.
I wish I had a solution for you. I’ll contact you if I ever find a solution for my similar problem.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc. -
Funny that, the same thing happened to me yesterday.
I recently upgraded the RAID utility by software update and noticed that sometimes although the RAID is shown, sometimes it is locked searching with two red lights. Looking at the log showed it had lost connection via ethernet.
The only thing for it was to yank the power cords.
Peter
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